Email: iamdliu@nwpu.edu.cn

Education & Work

November 2018-Now.     Assistant Professor Northwestern Polytechnical University

September 2015- September 2018 PhD. Quantum Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, KU Leuven,

Belgium. Group: Liviu.F Chibotaru

August 2012 - July 2015 M.S. degree in Physical Chemistry, Jilin University, China.

Group: Guangtao Yu

September 2008 - July 2012 B.S. degree in Chemistry, Jilin Normal University, China.

Awards

2010  The second class scholarship 2011      The first class scholarship 2014  The national scholarship 2015   The academic scholarship

Research Interests

Publications List: (total number of google scholar citations: 161 and h-index: 6)

1. Liu, D., Niwa, Y., Iwahara, N.,* Sato, T., Chibotaru, L.* Quadratic Jahn-Teller effect of fullerene anions. Phys. Rev. B 98, 035402.

2. Liu, D., Iwahara, N.,* Chibotaru, L. F.* (2018). Dynamical Jahn-Teller effect of fullerene anions. Phys. Rev. B 97, 115412.

3. Liu, D., Yu, G.,* Sun, Y., Huang, X., Guan, J., Zhang, H., Chen, W.* (2015). Molecular charge transfer by adsorbing TCNQ/TTF molecules via π–π interaction: a simple and effective strategy to modulate the electronic and magnetic behaviors of zigzag SiC nanoribbons. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17(2), 941-950.

4. Chen Y., Liu J.,* Wernsdorfer W., Liu D., Chibotaru L., Chen X., Tong M.* (2017). Hyperfine-Interaction-Driven Suppression of Quantum Tunneling at Zero Field in a Holmium

5. (III) Single-Ion Magnet. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56 (18), 4996-5000.(Very Important Paper, Inside cover; Contribution: All the computational work)

6. Zhang K., Liu D., Vieru V., Hou L., Cui B., Guo F.,* Chibotaru L.,* Wang Y.* (2016). Transitions of Two Magnetic Interaction States in Dinuclear Dy(III) Complexes via Subtle Structural Variations. Dalton Trans., 46, 638-642. (Contribution: All the computational work)

7. Yu, G.,* Liu, D., Chen, W.,* Zhang, H., Huang, X. (2014). Introducing the Triangular Defect to Effectively Engineer the Wide Band Gap of Boron Nitride Nanoribbons with Zigzag and Even Armchair Edges. J. Phys. Chem. C, 118(24), 12880-12889. (Contribution: All the computational work and Initial Manuscript Writing)

8. Long J.,* Shestakov B., Liu D., Chibotaru L., Guari Y., Cherkasov A., Fukin G., Trifonov A.,* Larionova J. (2017). An organolanthanide (III) single-molecule magnet with an axial crystal-field: influence of the Raman process over the slow relaxation. Chem. Commun., 53, 4706-4709. (Contribution: All the computational work)

9. Chen, W., Zhang, H., Ding, X., Yu, G.,* Liu, D., Huang, X. (2014). Dihalogen edge- modification: an effective approach to realize the half-metallicity and metallicity in zigzag silicon carbon nanoribbons. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2(37), 7836-7850. (Partial computation)